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, vice_chancellor = Current: Andrea Nollent
Incoming:

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, website = , logo = , footnotes = , affiliations = The University of Law (founded in 1962 as The College of Law of England and Wales) is a for-profit

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in the

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, providing

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s, specialist legal training and

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courses for British

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s; it is the United Kingdom's largest

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. It traces its origins to 1876. The College of Law had been incorporated by

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in 1975, but in 2012, prior to the granting of

, its educational and training business was split off and incorporated as a

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. This became The College of Law Limited and later The University of Law Limited. The college was granted degree-awarding powers in 2006, and in 2012 changed its name to The University of Law (ULaw) when it became the UK's first for-profit educational institution to be granted university status.''

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'' (12 May 2006)
"College of Law to offer degrees"
Retrieved 2 June 2016. The charitable branch, which remained incorporated by the 1975 royal charter, became the Legal Education Foundation. Shortly after the granting of university status and being renamed The University of Law in 2012, The College of Law Limited was bought by

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. Three years later, Montagu sold the company to its present owner, the Netherlands-based company

. The university has nine campuses in the UK in

(

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and

, as well as an international branch in

History

20th century

The

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created The College of Law in 1962 by merging its own solicitors' training school, the

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(founded in

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) with the tutorial firm

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(established in 1876). The

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were officially granted on 5 September 1967 to the then College of Law. The coat of arms of the College of Law of England and Wales was depicted with the

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was deprecated when the institution became a private limited company. The college was created in its legal form by

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on 5 December 1975. It was registered as a charity on 24 May 1976, with the aim "to promote the advancement of legal education and the study of law in all its branches". Until the transfer of its training business to The College of Law Limited in 2012, The College of Law was in the top 100 of UK charities ranked by expenditure. Following the recommendations of the Ormrod Report on the reform of legal education in England and Wales, The Law Society submitted proposals in 1975 for a 36-week Final Examination course for aspiring solicitors and a

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(CPE) or law conversion course for non-law graduates to be taught at The College of Law. The first CPE was held in 1978. The number of institutions approved to deliver the CPE gradually increased until by 2006 the

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and 27 universities, most of them former polytechnics, were also running the course. However, the leading providers of the CPE (now called the

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) remained The College of Law and BPP Law School, whose enrollments still "dwarfed" those of the universities in 2010. In the 1980s, The Law Society asked the college to produce a scheme for additional tuition in accounts for articled clerks (now trainee solicitors), combining distance learning with one-day's attendance at lectures. Further distance learning courses were developed in a partnership with the Open University beginning in 1998. The Guildford campus of the college also established the Fresh Start distance learning course for solicitors returning to practice after a career break or those wishing to change their specialisation. The 1990s saw a change in the relationship between The Law Society and The College of Law. In 1994, Nigel Savage, then the dean of Nottingham Trent University's law school, called for a review of the link between the college and The Law Society which had eight of its council members on the college's board of governors. Savage suggested that this gave the college an unfair advantage in recruiting students to the Legal Practice Course which had been set up The Law Society in 1993 to replace the Final Examination course. The society also regulated the course and determined which institutions would receive a licence to deliver it. He proposed that the college should either "come clean" about the relationship and declare itself the official college of The Law Society or sever the link and become completely independent. The college subsequently severed the link, and The Law Society stopped appointing college governors. Savage went on to become the president and CEO of The College of Law in 1996 and served in that capacity for the next 18 years.

21st century

The College of Law established ''

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, with students undertaking legal advice work for free supervised by the college's lecturers. In March 2015, The University of Law (as the college is now called) obtained an alternative business structure licence, allowing it to expand its legal advice clinics. It also restructured its

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s to give students more choice and won contracts to develop law firm-specific LPC programmes for three

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firms –

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and

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. However, by the end of 2014, it had retained only Linklaters, having lost the contracts with Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance, who moved to

. The college was granted degree-awarding powers by the

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in 2006, leading to development of its Bachelor and Master of Laws degree programmes. The London

centre was also opened that year. According to the University of Law, the Moorgate centre is the UK's largest corporate-specific law school. In 2012, The College of Law underwent a major restructuring. The College of Law Limited was created as a private limited company to take on its educational and training business. The parent charity changed its name to the Legal Education Foundation. In April of that year,

agreed to buy The College of Law Limited for approximately £200 million. On 22 November 2012, it was announced that the college had been granted full university status and its name would be changed to "The University of Law". Shortly thereafter, Montague Private Equity completed the acquisition process. This raised questions about the legality of transferring the degree-awarding powers granted under royal charter to the original College of Law to the newly created company, and then selling that company, now with university status, to a for-profit provider. The UK

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explained that while degree-awarding powers cannot be transferred, when a whole institute changes its legal status, the powers remain with it. This was considered to be the case with The University of Law because all of the original College of Law's education and training business had been transferred to the for-profit college, and the activities remaining with the chartered body were not related to the degree-awarding powers. Dame

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was named the newly created university's first chancellor in 2013. The university began selling off its property portfolio on a

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basis in 2014, starting with the four buildings of its

campus. According to analysis of the university's accounts earlier that year by the ''

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'', the purchase by Montagu Private Equity in 2012 had loaded the university with £177m of debt. Critics had compared the purchase by Montagu Private Equity to the

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s of Premier League clubs in English football. At the time, The University of Law's ultimate

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was L-J Holdco Ltd., which was incorporated in Guernsey and majority owned by Montagu-managed funds. University of Law, Leeds 27 May 2018

In June 2015, Montagu Private Equity sold the university to

(GUS) for an undisclosed sum. Former UK Education and Employment Secretary and Home Secretary

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, at the time a visiting lecturer at the

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(also owned by Global University Systems), was named chairman of the board. The University of Law announced the launch of its De Broc School of Business in July 2015, but it had to defer the first intake of students (originally planned for September of that year) due to low student recruitment. The summer of 2015 also saw a restructuring of the university's governance. The provost, Andrea Nollent, also assumed the role of Chief Academic Officer. John Latham, who had been its CEO and president since 2014 and had overseen the sale of The University of Law to Global University Systems, resigned by "mutual consent". The office of president became a non-executive position and was assumed by Lord Grabiner. David Johnston, the former chief operating officer, took over as CEO. Johnston was subsequently replaced as CEO by economist Stelios Platis in April 2016. In turn, Platis stepped down in October 2016 and was replaced by Andrea Nollent, who serves as both CEO and Vice-Chancellor. In September 2018,

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, the former president of the

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, was appointed to succeed Fiona Woolf as the university's chancellor. On 4 January 2021, Legal Practice Course students complained that the university had given them an exam on a topic they hadn't yet been taught. The university apologised for the mix-up. On 27 January 2021, it was reported that the University of Law's owner

was looking to sell a portion of its stake in the university.''

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'' (27 January 2021)
"ULaw owner seeks funding injection by selling stake"
Retrieved 9 February 2021.

Campuses

ULaw has campuses in the UK located in

(

and

. It also delivers the Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course programmes at four other UK universities:

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(since 2015),

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(since 2017),

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(since 2018), and

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(since 2019). The university opened an international branch in Hong Kong in 2019, which operates out of a serviced office. The Christleton (Chester) campus was sold in 2019 and closed in 2021.

Academic profile

As of 2018, courses and degrees offered by the university include Bachelor of Laws (

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, Master of Laws (

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) in Legal Practice, Master of Science ( MSc) in Law, Governance, Risk and Compliance, and the Professional Skills Course (for trainee solicitors on day-release). The

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's courses in Law (including the

by distance learning) were offered in association with The University of Law. However, the Open University announced in a 2013 press release that this partnership was being phased out and would end completely in 2018.Open University (6 June 2013)
"The OU Law School and The University of Law pursue expansion opportunities"
Retrieved 2 June 2016. In 2015, ULaw established a one-year foundation programme for international students wishing to progress to undergraduate legal study in the UK.Hyde, John (27 March 2015)
"University of Law granted ABS status to offer legal services"
''Law Society Gazette''. Retrieved 4 June 2016. The University of Law does not feature in the

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(also known as the Shanghai Ranking) or ''

'' university rankings (including

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), as the rankings exclude small and/or specialist institutions. In the 2014 ''

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'', the university was jointly classified with

and

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as the UK's second most successful university in terms of student ratings, with a learner satisfaction level of 92%. In the 2016 National Student Survey the university was ranked joint first (with the University of Buckingham) for satisfaction within the student body, achieving an overall satisfaction rate of 97%. The Advertising Standards Authority has noted, however, that this compared the ranking for all subjects, and that when limited to law, ULaw ranked sixth for student satisfaction. In 2019, the university received a Silver rating in the UK government's

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Notable alumni and staff

Notable alumni and staff of the University of Law and the College of Law include: *

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, British-Nigerian football executive *

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, Conservative Member of Parliament for

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and former

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* Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor at

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and Lecturer in Law at

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, CBE QC, barristerWest, Karl (26 February 2012)
"Law school's £200m sale"
''Sunday Times''. Retrieved 2 June 2016 (subscription needed for full access). *

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, former Labour Member of Parliament for Salford and Eccles * John Davies,

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QC, lawyer and cartoonist *

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, former UK Labour Member of Parliament for

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Waller, Robert and Criddle, Byron (2007)
''The Almanac of British Politics''
pp. 290; 377; 509; 529; 982. Routledge. *

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, Labour Member of Parliament for Garston and Halewood *

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, PC, QC, former

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, Conservative Member of Parliament for

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